Aside from Pavia being cut, I got nothing for sports today. SO I’m moving on.
Well, they were postmarked “Beijing.” I’m just kidding. They were probably postmarked in a conservative area. The ones they did count were probably not postmarked at all.They just appeared out of the ether.
Damn. I can’t make the “he died doing what he loved most” joke. Because he would have had to have been killing someone else for that to have been the case.
What a couple of assholes. Why am I not surprised?
Does this dumbshit not have any responsibilities? I guess rabble-rousing counts as work to a communist.
Maybe it actually is just the Taco Bell food. I might have to test that theory again today. It worked out ok for me on Wednesday. ay as well roll the dice.
Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. Welcome to the real world, pal.
I didn’t know it was still around. Learn something new every day.
They couldn’t compete with Volkswoggan or BWM. Funnily enough, their cars were all identical, too.
Just use your endowments. Heaven forbid you’d do that instead of relying on taxpayers for everything.
I guess a man can’t have a hobby. Unless he’s on the political left, anyway.
Rock that xylophone. Or was it just a synth? Either way, it’s cool. And so is this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
Maybe the Euthanasia guy died trying to reach the 99 year old woman to kill her? In that case you can make the joke! I say we adopt this as head canon.
What does this have to do with the youth in Asia?
Perfect.
It feels like there is an alternative way to vote that guarantees it won’t “arrive late” or be “rejected”. It’s on the tip of my tongue.
Pre-voting! We just appoint some ‘psychics’ who use very expensive computers (which can easily be produced for about $5 each since all they need to do is look impressive and provide an excuse for a trillion in new spending) to predict how each person will vote in advance (Democrat) and we never have to worry about rejected or late ballots again!
Voting should only be allowed by lisences experts appointed by the state.
The rest of the year they will be on paid juries.
“We need bigger touchscreens!”
Lebensraum?
Maybe the should try concentrating their labor pool, a camp setting could work.
at least 50 inches
You jest, but for the Chinese market that might help.
If they developed a veterinary version, domestic prairie dogs could be a thing.
Then I lived in Bryan, TX there was a pet store that was the home for all “illegal” pets seized and the prarie dogs were a lot of fun to visit.
Not sure what putting bigger touch screens on prairie dogs would actually do, but OK.
Annoy the prairie dog would be my bet.
Laura would rather put a little house on the prairie dog.
It isn’t as common as it used to be, but it pops up from time to time.
Most cases can be treated with antibiotics.
If they just came up with a vaccine I kind of expect it to ‘pop up’ shortly.
Yeah, not taking a vaccine for a rare, treatable disease.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEREEEEEEEREEEEEEREEEEE
While not common, it is not rare in the 4-Corners region.
But vaccine? I’ll skip it.
“What a couple of assholes. Why am I not surprised?”
How dare the plebes get rowdy and demand things?
That article on Harlan Crow is almost actionable. I hope Harlan owns the building that paper works out of. Evict them!
Fetishism. If you touch something a Nazi owned the Nazi spirits will take over your body,
By the article’s logic I’m an American Ninja. I have an autographed photo of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dudikoff
And I am the Creature from the Black Lagoon because I have an autograph from Ricou Browning.
Shit, I used to buy cigarettes from Scott Peterson, what does that make me?
I identify as a Klingon warrior as I have an autograph by Rick Berman.
“Nazi” and “White House” in the same headline.
Imagine that. 🙄
Now do people who have Soviet art and call them communists.
And they say religion is dead on the left. How is this any different than believing that saints’ relics have special properties?
lol
If Sacramento is so universally pro-illegal alien, they should have no problem if each household takes one in for feeding and caring.
They will happily take in some, but most will be needed in the fields. You have to have the field slaves to make the money to afford the more presentable house slaves.
HBIC, or, House Beaner In Charge?
The goddam useless Republicans are trying to get amnesty for the field slaves, err, illegal agricultural workers.
Those farm votes don’t buy themselves!
“If Sacramento is so universally pro-illegal alien, they should have no problem if each household takes one in for feeding and caring.”
The liberal ethic requires others to bear the burden of some douchenozzle’s luxury beliefs. Whether the cost be monetary or social, others must pay. How dare you demand these Karens take the L? HOW DARE YOU!
The real crux:
Shut up and let us take the money!
All the money with none of the work.
Take the money and blow it on woke nonsense so other jurisdictions can’t use it for its intended purpose.
Genius!
I hate that islamofascist asshole as much as anybody but the article does not actually furnish any evidence of the claim mentioned in the headline.
Tip of the spear, hyperintelligent nonpartisan superanalyst right there.
Why was a wholly unqualified person selected for such a program?
Who were they sleeping with?
That’s what the whole anti colonialism/white supremacy and DEI movement is about: putting inept and unqualified people of all sorts in positions where the damage they can do now has more reach. Losers get the right to tell people that systems of success and merit are bad.
How can you say that? He has an unblemished 12 year track record of preventing domestic right wing terrorists from launching another 9/11!
My job forces me to interact with many varieties of entitled government fucks, and I credit myself with great self-control for not cursing them until they break down crying.
The amount of time wasted cajoling bureaucrats to actually do their jobs or at least get out of the way of people actually doing productive work is a significant economic drain.
@Jar – But what would I do if people actually did their jobs when I emailed them and didn’t require constant follow-up?
I wouldn’t have enough work to fill a day.
I don’t believe there’s a GovSec employee who has eight hours of real work to do in a day.
You’d be wrong, Ted.
The actual work distribution is little different from a corporate bureaucracy.
Admittedly, most corporations could do with mass layoffs of their bloat too.
Admittedly, most corporations could do with mass layoffs of their bloat too.
So then I wouldn’t be wrong.
Ted, you are deliberately conflating “There are people who could be tossed” with your claim of “Nobody has a day’s work to do” These are two different things. the same people would be doing the work before and after the culling.
The well known first line of defense, the US State Department! Bravely going forth to ensure that no Communist Regime, no Islamist Terror State, and no Third World Shithole ever wants for anything that American lives or treasure can provide!
Don’t forget the agenda of making everyone else on the planet bend the knee for gay/trannie parades. Not to live in peace with gays/trannies. No, bend the knee and accept them as our betters. You do you. I will do me is anathema to these people.
Not everyone else on Earth. They didn’t make pride parades a condition of financial aid for Iraq, Afghanistan, or Palistine.
“Not everyone else on Earth. They didn’t make pride parades a condition of financial aid for Iraq, Afghanistan, or Palistine.”
Wait wut?
There were tons of Palestinian gay pride parades. The Gays for Palestine assured us of such… And they even called in the Chickens for KFC crowd to back them up in that claim…
He is a Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District.
Nope, no partisan axe to grind here, nosirree.
Of course, his response would be along the lines of, “I used to be non-partisan but the Republican refusal to stand up to Trump’s irresponsible actions forced me to support the Democrats. Then people who knew me encouraged me to run for office.”
“Self-important asshole” seems to be today’s theme.
*tugs collar, looks around nervously*
I thought we were a hive of villainy and scum?
Our two chief weapons are villainy and scum and self important assholes. Wait, our three chief weapons are villainy, scum, and self important assholes and the internet.
Wait, …
He can have a federal job.
Go down to the recruitment office and sign up as an 11B
Isn’t there an age limit?
It’s been raised to 42.
If not the U.S. army the Ukrainians will take him as a drone catcher.
Can we blacklist the other 13k applicants? Presidential Management Fellows, really?
It took him 12 years after 9/11 to join… the state department?
JFC what a self-absorbed POS. They are all like that, aren’t they.
Yes. Yes they are.
Uh-huh. Sure, that’s why.
The state government has been a steaming sack of garbage as long as I can remember. It succeeded in spite of itself because of the lovely landscape and weather. That’s going to change soon. We are just seeing the tip of their issues.
Oh, the CA state government doesn’t have any problems a nice federal bailout can’t solve.
Why do you think TEAM BLUE governors kept covid lockdowns going?
They are still running out of other people’s water.
Also, having Hollywood and Silicon Valley as massive cash cows in the two largest metro areas made it viable, in a trickle down way.
I used to have hope that any Federal bail out of Cali (or NY, IL etc.) would die in the Senate when the red state senators would say “No, a thousand times no!”
I lost my illusions and now realize that they would roll over and show their bellies because they might be called mean names on the TV. Screw you 17A.
Also, red states like pork too.
LOL aside from the rampant intellectual theft (and outright gifting – a lot of corps were happy to “share” with the communists in order to access those sweet, sweet yuan), there is also the entirely self-impose klimate nonsense to help explain why building cars in Germany is a complete non-starter anymore.
The supposed world intellectual elite and their globalists thought they would pull a fast one on the CCP and China, get rich doing so by getting access to the China market, and do so at the same time as they destroyed the American middle class, which was absolutely needed to be able to move that evil marxist globalist reset agenda forward. To them, this avoided a real scary and costly potential conflict where they considered preventing the loss of their wealth as the main driver for any solution. Then the CCP didn’t play ball and wrecked them. These assholes have known since the mid 1990s that their policy had not just failed, but created a serious future problem, as the CCP stole every piece of IP it could and immediately made all stolen tech of military use. The writing was on the wall for decades. But these people knew that any action risked conflict, but more importantly, them losing massive piles of money the CCP government prevented them from taking out of China.
Now we are here. And we have another cowboy in the WH that has said playing nice with the enemy is a recipe for disaster, and the same assholes that told us communism was gonna win and that we should make peace with the USSR no mater how evil they were, are crying about China and making peace with the CCP ruling the world. However this plays out, my hope is that those that made massive bank letting the CCP out maneuver us in order to protect said wealth, all end up with their asses in the flames.
Every American business was motivated by greed – cheap workers, untapped consumers – that was the idiotic belief that profits would be HUGE.
I worked at GE at the time, was considered a darling and had been lured away from being a consultant to be an employee, but after my Black belt 6 Sigma project showed how big of a risk and shitshow this China/offshoring idea was less, than a decade into the full commit, I realized it was time to move on to better pastures rather than try to stick around with the animosity the truth generated for senior leadership. They all saw it and chose to ignore it.
They all saw it and chose to ignore it.
Admit they were wrong? What kind of madness is this?
“Admit they were wrong? What kind of madness is this?”
He shoots! He scores….
It isn’t even admit they were wrong, it was “who is going to be left standing in the game of musical chairs, ’cause the seated one’s are going to get a massive payout.”
Hopefully, I have some work to do at Title so I can practice more, something I didn’t have yesterday. However, med pics have been shared with my immediate manager, so that’s pretty officially out there, which was wise, methinks. I’m also getting my first paycheck today, though only my first week is in the pay period. Two more weeks ’til I get my first full one. *crosses fingers* (I don’t really need to do that, I hope. *double crosses* (Best be safe…))
Hope y’all got big and exciting things afoot. (Or peaceful, relaxing and comforting. Whatever.) Take it to the hoop.
Evan, just keep your head down, show up on time and do whatever work they have for you, and you’ll be fine. They knew you didn’t have experience and would need to ramp up when they hired you.
That, and remember to ask any questions you might have, when you have them. Any decent boss would rather you do that, as opposed to winging it.
Thanks, y’all. That’s been my plan and I’ve stuck to it.
Feels odd, being in an office. I’m determined to make this work. It’s a fucking fantastic stepping stone.
many of us still want to return to the State Department or another federal agency.
“I’ve worked in the private sector, they expect results.”
Now, Now, the State Department produces results all the time. The fact that the results are antithetical to US interests does not invalidate the fact that they are results.
Weren’t the Abraham Accords largely achieved outside the aegis of the State Department?
With low pay and benefits.
Dammit all,
Something got fucked up with my next major (Area 8 at Ontelaunee) and I’m not registered to shoot it, just work it. Which sucks because that would undoubtedly be a great match to shoot.
However, it does save me a night’s hotel room, a day’s PTO and a few hundred dollars worth of ammo. Considering my budget these days that’s not a terrible thing.
😥
Damn, that sucks.
Could you DQ somebody and take their slot?
I’d have to DQ a staff member since I’m supposed to be working during the main match, and that would have soooo many negative repercussions.
Last match had a pretty faboo “super squad” and this one’s might be even better.
Is it weird that I congratulated a guy from my club last weekend for him beating a 19 year old girl?
[ DQs R C Dean ]
By ‘beating”, I hope you mean “outscoring”.
Well, unless she had it coming, of course.
Yup. I’ve watched he grow from an adorable little guntyke to a entitled bratty teenager to starting to grow the fuck up a bit. Her dad is also good, but he cheats. We missed a prime chance to bust him last match, but the number of officials who are aware and watching is growing.
I’ll never understand people who cheat at practical shooting. It’s like cheating at making a sandwich.
He shot a popper through a wall after a mike earlier in the run. The only person to make that particualr mistake out of 524 shooters. And he’s M-class LE.
Le think that’s not a mistake.
STEVE SMITH USE ENDOWMENT
UTILIZE!
Vance seems to have hit a nerve over at the WSJ.
Strassel is very well plugged into DC and does good reporting. She’s valuable for getting the inside story. However, she most definitely qualifies as an inside the beltway RINO. Spend and bomb!
Team Vance saw it as it sees any slight: an all-hands call to delegitimize a critic—to brand her a RINO, “establishment,” a liar, a captive tool, or part of some anti-JD “op.”
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, by JD Vance
His online minions attack me fiercely over last week’s column. They should hear what my kids call me.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people-by-jd-vance-a6a1d5fe?st=c6tZ4w&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Newspaper people writing about politicians whine other people defend.
It’s like reading a book about an author writing.
A total wast of time and paper.
I’m getting a little sick and tired of being told that refraining from throwing billions of dollars at Israel is “undermining” them. After that nonsense I paid no further attention to that person’s ranting.
I’m being terribly undermined – where’s my billions?
But the vice president has shown a lot of lefty leg lately: undermining Israel, panning free markets, touting a Christian-themed big-government agenda.
That’s some kind of coherent lefty program? WTF?
When I think “lefty”, “Christian-themed” is the first thing that comes to mind.
Accusations without quotations.
Arbitrators also have a strong incentive to rule for providers to attract more business. Arbitrators set their fees—typically about $600 per claim—which are paid by the losing party. Ruling for providers encourages them to file more claims. No surprise, claims have exploded.
Nice. OTH, it’s very difficult for me to have much sympathy for the insurers. And this is despite me have deep experience with insurers.
The ‘Surprise Billing’ Racket
Biden officials predicted 17,000 arbitration disputes a year under the No Surprises Act. In 2026 there were 2.6 million.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/surprise-billing-act-health-insurance-providers-15c1eadb?st=kNH5oR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No Surprises Act
The most ill-fated bit of naming in history?
Affordable Care Act, Patriot Act… The list is long.
It does give me the excuse to repost this from a gem a of a film.
U.H.F. – Supplies
https://youtu.be/GHS_GQLgqtM?si=LkVDEdNEyplAzUZb
Granted, it doesn’t reach the height of “peace in our time”.
Oh, this one. Yeah, the fact that doctors in hospitals bill separately is disclosed relentlessly and at length. There is no surprise, there. And the insurance companies know it. Why they are refusing to pay is a mystery to me, and the fact that they are losing in arbitration should be no surprise as that is the correct result.
They’re trying to get non-contracted providers to accept their in-network contract rates I think.
Having gone through an extended hospital stay with the missus in two hospitals and multiple surgeries, it is impossible for the end consumer to screen network/out of network providers or know in advance what it’s going to cost. It’s not just the doc, it’s the docs, the anesthesiologists, the infection doc, the lab work, etc. Fucking UHC sets up their HRA to autopay me for any claims submitted instead of to the provider submitting it so I had dozens of small dollar checks, many of which were never directly billed to us.
It’s a fucking game with a lot of money to be made by others.
“A black bear wandered into a Southern California water district office Wednesday after pushing open the front door, briefly exploring the building before walking back into the surrounding forest.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/24/us-news/black-bear-caught-on-video-wandering-into-california-water-district-office-after-pushing-open-front-door/
“Over a dozen people frantically scrambled for safety after a black bear suddenly charged through a Tennessee parking lot last week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/23/us-news/black-bear-barrels-at-bystanders-as-chaos-erupts-in-tennessee-parking-lot-wild-video-shows/
Racist coverage?
Racist coverage? You bet – they didn’t capitalize Black.
Water district office.
I would have sent three or four hungry grizzly bears but that’s just me and my hatred for water districts.
Those people need to be mauled and eaten.
“A deranged attacker yelling “Allahu Akbar” stabbed two men in separate attacks on the Upper West Side Thursday afternoon, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
Investigators were probing whether the suspect Raul Morales, 51, was motivated by hate, though Tisch also said “the initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor.”
“Detectives are continuing to work the case and determine motive, but according to victim and witness statements, Morales yelled ‘Allahu Akbar,’” meaning, “God is the greatest” in Arabic, during both attacks, the top cop said in a statement.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/23/us-news/2-men-stabbed-near-central-park-in-unprovoked-attack-sources/
Raul Morales doesn’t sound Arab.
You could wear a big sign that says “Hate Crime in Progress”, and as long as you shouted “Allahu Akbar”, your motive would remain a complete mystery.
So if the victims were white and Christian the guy would be out on bail already?
Two Men Stabbed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in Possible Hate Crime
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/two-men-stabbed-on-manhattans-upper-west-side-528be56e?st=7WRDrr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In the year since my firing, I have experienced the full spectrum of emotions. Moments of excitement — interviews on “The Daily Show” and NPR — give way to anxiety and depression. Losing a professional identity is never easy, and watching former colleagues struggle to rebuild their lives is equally painful. Many, including myself, have applied for hundreds of jobs without a single offer. Some took service industry work after their unemployment checks ran out.
Despite our grief and trauma, many of us still want to return to the State Department or another federal agency.
Oh, you poor precious delicate blossom.
They are a plague upon the land. DOGE didn’t do enough.
Agreed. Cut it all.
“Many, including myself, have applied for hundreds of jobs without a single offer.”
…Have you ever considered the possibility that your entire adult/professional life has been useless?
That, and he can stop bitching. All of us have to apply for hundreds of jobs.
“…Have you ever considered the possibility that your entire adult/professional life has been useless?”
What the fuck are you talking about? I have a masters in “French Poetry of the 13th Century” and a minor in “Lesbian underwater Basket Weaving” and “Black Studies”. I am hyper qualified. In fact, I should be paid $600K+ a year to preach to dumb children about the marvels and wonder of socialist warmth!!!
/Libtard off
DOGE didn’t do shit except expose fraud. Congress spends the money.
You do that too well.
Their expertise can be put to work stocking shelves.
And there it is. That knowing sentiment that you are somehow above actual work.
But, but, but,…that’s work only fit for migrant Beeners! God forbid I get off my lazy, entitled ass and pay for my contractual debts for services both rendered and expected!
Beeners?
This guy seems more like a has-beener.
“Beeners?”
Goddammit, Beaners.
Surely a guy who lived in Arizona for many years is familiar with the pejorative .
Beaners? Sure. Although that’s more of a Texas thing.
Beeners? Never heard of them.
“Beeners? Never heard of them.”
Sure you have. Ya know, those folks who, no matter what story you tell them say: “Been there, done that, the fish I caught was bigger.”
Well the world needs ditchdiggers too. Now get to applying.
Heavy Machine Operators have pushed manual ditch-diggers out of the market.
I’d rather have the efficiency of an excavator moving the dirt quickly than dozens of dipshits whining about the loss of the sinecures being whipped to get back to digging. They wouldn’t even do a good job, while one Heavy Machine Operator can open the whole ditch cleanly and correctly in a matter of hours rather than weeks.
I’ve been fired, what, four times? So I bring some expertise to the table when I say that if this causes you “grief and trauma”, you need to drop a testicle and grow the fuck up.
Only three for me!
Somehow I may still be able to retire in the near future and not need SNAP.
I don’t think “only three testicles” is quite right….
I haven’t been fired since graduating from college almost 41 years ago.
That’s because I am either good at what I do or good at hiding what I can’t do well.
“Firing” is pretty much off the table at this point since any action to remove me would just spawn filling out the papers to retire. Of course, cheating on my time sheet or harassing the admin could short circuit any lengthy process to fire me.
kinnath – it depends on what you do and where you work.
Being RIF’d in lots of corporate America is rather normal now. That’s part of the reason for those “headline grabbing” compensation numbers. You need to save some of that as you may be out of work for a while. But that is rarely mentioned.
A layoff and a firing are two different things.
Being RIFed isn’t a mark on the employee the way fired for cause is.
Was this person fired or laid off?
Being RIF’d . . . .
Seen on the back of a chair when I was visiting one of our customers . . . . “I survived the Friday afternoon culling.” Such cullings are common place in my industry.
I have survived numerous RIFs over the years. The biggest RIF — 25% of engineering staff — was in the aftermath of 9-11.
UCS – from an employer perspective it’s really just voluntary or involuntary.
The FedGov whiner was involuntary and essentially RIF’d.
Sure “for cause” versus RIF is dividing the involuntary separation category, but it really doesn’t hold much meaning. For most companies they won’t disclose the reason for termination they will only confirm dates of employment.
Three plus the army medical retiring me.
That’s kinda like being fired.
I was never fired for cause as such. I was always fired for a reason, though.
I’m not sure subsequent employers see a distinction between “for cause” and “RIF”. The old company never, ever says why you were shown the door, so the new companies don’t even know. In the convos I’ve had about hiring people, it’s never come up once.
I dunno either but the last time I was laid off I made it very clear to prospective employers that it was not “for cause”. I figured it couldn’t hurt.
Causes
“Yeah you had better start looking for a new job.”
Sick for months with doctors appointments
“Your new schedule dosent work for us”
Wanted to start taking two weekends a month off and not working 7 day weeks
“College president was talking to Scott…”
Accelerated too fast in the yard east truck when it was known that only the foreign students got to stay on during the school year. Later found out they the collect got subsidies based on foreign student work/enrollment.
Threedoor – are you looking for a house at the lake?
For $799,000: A Ship-Shaped Idaho Home With 30,000 Instagram Followers
The 1,200-square-foot house has three decks and nautical details throughout
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/ship-wreck-house-idaho-bf0aed9b?st=5LdSWc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My wife found that several weeks ago. It’s super silly and pretty cool.
Well alrighty then.
The Brookings Institution wouldn’t lie.
“We have not looked for problems with mail voting. We have not found problems with mail voting.
Case. Fucking. Closed.
Popular with Repub and Dems? Sure Jan.
Do you want to see my shocked face?
Department officials indicated Thursday they were still weighing whether to try to bring charges against people who voted. “It is illegal for any noncitizen to vote in a federal election, and every unlawful vote dilutes the voice of American citizens,” a department spokeswoman said. “The department is prosecuting cases where the law and evidence support it.”
When Sherrill disclosed New Jersey’s mistake earlier this week, she said it would be the “utmost hypocrisy” for her state to charge noncitizens who voted “when it’s our fault,” and blamed her predecessor for putting immigrants in a vulnerable position.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/tensions-grow-between-justice-department-and-new-jersey-over-voter-roll-errors-42ee418e?st=PTw5v5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So arrest her predecessor. And kick out every illegal who voted.
They knew they were illegal and they voted anyway. It’s both the illegals’ fault and Sherrill’s fault.
So, deport the illegals, imprison the politicians. Man, that’s really my solution for everything…
#metoo
Yeah, if she was in office when it happened, impeach her or something.
You’re welcome, NJ.
Deport the politicians too. I don’t want to pay room and board for them in prison.
It’s also what the law says.
Well if there is one thing Jersey pols know – it is utmost hypocrisy.
“When Sherrill disclosed New Jersey’s mistake earlier this week, she said it would be the “utmost hypocrisy” for her state to charge noncitizens who voted “when it’s our fault,””
They held a gun to their heads.
To be fair, the noncitizens probably didn’t actually vote. It’s more likely that after they were “mistakenly” registered to vote someone voted using their ballots.
That is my thought, too.
And that it was WAY more than “400” or whatever she is claiming.
Hard to say. They damn sure knew they were registered, though, because you get mailings from the state after you register to vote.
So, kick ‘em out. Zero tolerance.
This guy preens like a peacock….
Maybe it was determined that your contributions weren’t worth the hard drive space they were taking up?
Trump is being man to our “trading partners”
The Trump administration imposed new tariffs Friday on dozens of countries over alleged forced-labor violations, according to a notice in the Federal Register.
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The move “is the most sweeping international labor rights action the United States has ever taken — that any country has ever taken,” a senior Trump administration official told reporters in a call earlier Thursday.
We should ship a bunch of labor union organizers to them.
Expect more of this. Congress has given away its responsibilities to the executive like 50 different ways with regards to tariffs. The Supreme Court said no to way #1. Trump said, “no problem we will just use way #2”.
This isn’t unexpected. It’s just a way to fill the news cycle.
“alleged” in combo with “Trump”… that means “actual” then.
We’ve finally found something that has successfully annoyed Iran.
Tehran slams Trump’s threat to use frozen Iranian assets as ‘incendiary’
President Trump says damages will be paid for by Iranian money that the US has ‘in its possession, and controls’.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/24/tehran-slams-trumps-threat-to-use-frozen-iranian-assets-as-incendiary
Question for our Salon-watchers:
Have they erupted in shrieking outrage over the Second Lady and her birthing person privilege?
Yes
Well the world needs ditchdiggers too.
“Here, boy. Take this shovel and put ‘er to some good use.”
Careful, they might choose to swing that shovel at you for assuming their pronoun…
When I was on social media and people bitched about not making any money or not having a “living wage” I would post entry level mining jobs that started at $60,000
Powerball players outraged over lottery’s historic expansion abroad: ‘Rigged anyway’
https://nypost.com/2026/07/23/us-news/powerball-players-outraged-over-lotterys-historic-expansion-abroad-rigged-anyway/
I’m not understanding the logic here. How is the usual Powerball player in the US going to react when the huge jackpot is paid in the UK? Seems it’s going to lower interest and not raise it. OTH, no surprise, I’m not their market or that familiar with the demographics of the the US players other than the obvious of course…
I’ve played sporadically over the years when the jackpots got big. I’m thinking I’ll never participate again.
Time to switch to Mega Millions for me.
LOL
“I’ll find some other way to light my money on fire.”
I will never get the appeal of gambling. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doomsday scenarios
For two hours Wednesday, away from the cameras, in a room just steps away from the Senate chamber, a group of powerful lawmakers rehearsed for some of their darkest fears about November’s midterm elections: disinformation triggering voter-roll purges in key states before Election Day, National Guard troops deployed to polling places as voters cast their ballots and the machinery of a free election seizing up in real time.
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“I don’t think that’s a message we’re sending,” Elias told MS NOW in an interview at the Capitol. “What we’re doing is preparing for the fact that Donald Trump, in 2020, lied about the election in advance, lied about it in the aftermath, went to court … and then he instigated a violent insurrection in this very building. So I think we need to take these threats in the 2026 midterm run-up, you know, both seriously and literally.”
While the goal of the scenario-planning, as former Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta put it, is “to make sure senators don’t have a failure of imagination around these types of threats,” there is also a flip side.
They’re not intentionally promoting disinformation and doubt. They’re just spitballing reasonable ideas about the sort of election disruptions President Cartoon Villain is likely to engage in.
“voter-roll purges”
Of illegals and dead people.
Why do you want illegals and dead people to keep “voting”, Chuck?
CWAC
“Disinformation”, rhywun. Those purges are triggered by disinformation.
Just ask the Dems.
Considering the voter participation level in mid-terms, the odds of being purged from the rolls means it is only 50-50 it impacts an actual voter.
Schumer trying to keep Brandon Herrera out of office confirmed.
Good luck getting any Texas PD except Austin and maybe Houston to not welcome ICE with open arms.
OMG – we can’t let the states decide what happens within their borders!
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing on a proposed rule change that would hand the power to states to decide how the public participates in the permitting process for certain new sources of air pollution.
AI firms want more data centers; Trump’s EPA may give neighbors less say
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ai-firms-want-more-data-centers-trumps-epa-may-give-neighbors-less-say/
And yet they want to give strangers thousands of miles away more say.
Only when those strangers say what they want to hear… As an example, if voter fraud and illegal invasions favored republicans, democrats would be starting a civil war to stop them.
“A Somali man named Sharmake Beyle Omar, who was not the child’s father, began recording the scene, became extremely confrontational with Hendrix as she was holding her toddler, and continued filming as he demanded and provoked her to repeat the slur….
Court records show that in 2022, the man filming, Sharmake Beyle Omar, was charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct and fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct stemming from an alleged incident involving a minor.
Those charges were dismissed by the Olmsted County Attorney’s Office in 2025 “in the interests of justice.”
Omar had previously pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a 2020 assault case and received a $200 fine….
Jimale had to use multiple interpreters and repeatedly denied involvement in any fundraiser before acknowledging that his family had received roughly $340,000 through an NAACP-backed effort. He also misstated his son’s age.
It was also revealed that the child has to wear a police-issued ankle bracelet due to his tendency to run off.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/breaking-verdict-reached-shiloh-hendrix-case-after-more/
OFFS!
So they convicted her of disorderly conduct for calling someone a nigger?
That’s ripe for being overturned on appeal. Dunno if any of the usual suspects for defending civil rights are in her court, though.
Is Randazza still enough of an edgelord to do it?
“justice” lol
“It seems there is a white nationalist faction to Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of Black women, many of them queer. When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands….
It shouldn’t need reminding this country has an awful history of Black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of “defending” white women. The irony of the WNBA’s All-Star Game is that it’s happening this weekend in Chicago, the hometown of Emmett Till, who became an icon of the civil rights movement after his tragic murder. The local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit imagining his life if he hadn’t been lynched. While it’s incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, there also should be an expectation on Clark to recognize the broader implications of her actions being weaponized.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2026/07/22/caitlin-clarks-reaction-to-noncalls-puts-wnba-players-at-risk/91002124007/
They should ban whistles.
They want the league to cater specifically to the black and queef community, *and* to be able to complain when normies tune out in droves.
CELEBRATE US YOU DAMN BIGOTS!!!
🤔
Any place you see “queer”, you can replace it with “queef” without loss of meaning.
A fist to the throat is just normal play, yup yup.
“Just take it, you white bitch. You aren’t wanted in our black lesbian league, and you’ll keep getting beatdowns until you get out.”
Do I have that about right?
“it shouldn’t need reminding” which is why leftists never shut about it and never will because they have literally nothing of substance to say.
It seems there is a white nationalist faction to Clark’s fandom
Because of course there is. (eye roll)
WHEEEEE!
Scientists have reacted with incredulity after Donald Trump accused Canada of “poisoning” the US’s air with smoke billowing from a slew of forest fires and threatened sanctions upon the country’s northern neighbor.
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Such fierce wildfires are a symptom of the climate crisis rather than a lack of management, experts warn, with the current blazes worsened by the recent severe heat dome that expanded from the US into Canada. The world is rapidly heating up due to the burning of fossil fuels, a process that Trump has actively sought to accelerate.
“This is like crashing into the car in front of you because you were speeding and tailgating, and then demanding they pay for the damage to your headlights,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, of Trump’s comments. “It’s victim-blaming by the assailant.
“The policies of Trump and the GOP are worsening the problem by doubling down in fossil fuel production and doing their best to obstruct the clean energy transition while the rest of the world moves on,” Mann added.
That’s right. Canada isn’t poisoning the atmosphere. Exxon is. Get your hobgoblins straight, people.
So Michael Mann hasn’t been tarred and feathered?
Burned at the steak would be appropriate.
Sean says burning at the steak is an abuse of a good tri-tip.
It makes sense for the Guardian to quote a proven liar.
Never change, the Guardian.
“Some of the rhetoric from political leaders in the US is almost laughable, they don’t understand the ecosystem or the scope of the problem. This is a climate change-driven disaster and of course the Trump administration are climate deniers so they won’t take responsibility for US contributions to greenhouse gases. This is about deflecting attention from the cause of this.”
Stop disagreeing with us. Confess your sins.
I’d like to see a good, honest longitudinal account of wildfires in Canada over the last, say, 60 years at a minimum.
I’d also like to know if Canada follows the California fire management model of “let underbrush build up to catastrophic levels”.
Pre-industrial California had less wildfire.
And fewer resident firebugs.
I would like that too. I only remember this smoke problem two or three times in my life, and they were all in the last 10-15 years. But I know that’s anecdotal.
Nuke India and China as well, just to be safe.
What “cause” is that, asshole?
The bullshit you have been bleating about for decades without a shred of evidence? That “cause”?
“The AP reported that Nepal’s leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group, the Blue Diamond Society, immediately disbanded after being cut off from US taxpayer dollars. The group, primarily staffed by trans and LGBTQ individuals, received 85 percent of its funding from USAID and ran 20 clinics across Nepal. They distributed HIV medications and testing services to prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted disease.
Since the Nepali government does not support the transgender community, transgender individuals have a more difficult time gaining employment outside of NGOs. Roughly 35 percent to 45 percent of the society’s former staffers have turned to sex work. Lama told the publication that it’s become a matter of survival, either selling his body or facing starvation.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ap-sob-story-on-nepalese-trans-aid-workers-turning-to-prostitution-after-usaid-cuts-mocked-why-was-the-us-funding-employment-for-transgender-nepalese-sex-workers
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-sex-workers-trump-budget-cuts-d8ea21ca4d43f1598ea54499123d46e0
It’s right in the Constitution, next to the navy and post office.
Sell his body and snack while at it.
“On June 24, police officers approached a vehicle at a local park and saw people getting dressed quickly inside. There were multiple used condoms outside the vehicle, and they found an 18-year-old male as well as a 13-year-old girl. On the scene, they arrested Yousef Muzin Yousef. The other 18-year-old male, Ali Odai Emad, was arrested shortly after.
The teenage girl said that her friend had just left with Emad and said that they had also had sexual intercourse in the car.
“I’ll be honest, I was having sex; is that illegal here, like in the park?” Yousef asked the police when he was in the police car. The girl with Yousef said that she felt like she was coerced into the act and that it was her first time doing so when she spoke to officials at a local hospital.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/arab-migrants-released-into-us-under-biden-charged-with-luring-rape-of-13-year-old-girls-in-utah-park
Was that wrong?
I’d also like to know if Canada follows the California fire management model of “let underbrush build up to catastrophic levels”.
Doing anything else is impractical, if not impossible. Tending the Canadian forest like a garden is infeasible. The natural cycle is all you get.